Greek Mythology: Egyptian Vs. Greek

Mythology: Egyptian vs. Greek No matter what culture you’re in there will always be things that can’t be explained. In the ancient Egyptian and Greek cultures, they used myths about gods to explain them. During these times, there wasn’t lots of technology and scientific reason. Many people had sort of awkward questions such as “Who created the world? What will be its demise? Who were the first people on earth? Where do souls go after death?” () To justify an existing social system and account for their traditional rites and customs, stories about gods, goddesses, heroes and monsters were an important part of everyday life. “Mythology tries to answer the most difficult and the most basic questions of human existence.” () To the ancients, the
Now these polytheistic and pagan religions have been suppressed in favor of other religions such as Christianity, Judaism and Muslim. But the bases and ideas of future religions come from Egyptian and Greek mythology. Interwoven in Egyptian and Greek culture, “mythology (from the Greek 'mythos' for story-of-the-people, and 'logos' for word or speech, the spoken story of a people) is the study and interpretation of often sacred tales or fables of a culture known as 'myths' or the collection of such stories which usually deal with the human condition, good and evil, human origins, life and death, the afterlife, and the gods.” () Myths express the beliefs and values about these subjects held by a certain culture. An important part of these myths were the gods, goddesses, monsters and hero’s they were based on. The reality of understanding it was up to the individual meeting the values said in the myths instead of having that reality interpreted for them by an authority figure. “The ancient myths still resonate with today’s modern audience precisely because the ancient writers created them toward individual interpretation, leaving each person who heard the story to recognize the meaning in the tale for themselves.”